The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-01

The gloomy FRITZ hartmann Sas more
gloomy than ever. Martha swept the
cottage and played with the child: but
he grumbled at his poverty, and the
child shrank from his black looks. He
was at the old notary's house every
night now.
care YOU selling him carving,
Fritz?" said Martha. why, we shall
be richi'
Fritz Hartmann was going out To the
notary'S before he had even tasted a
bit after his work.
81 am doing some carving thcre-at
the house, of night. We may be
rich-if we are it is only my just right,
and thanks To- nobody"
This was strange way of talking of
wood carving. Martha wondered and
puzzled while she was taking off bright
haired Gretchen's strong little shoes
and putting her To bed. Well. after
all, it WAS the just right of workman
To get the value of his work; perhaps
that was what Fritz meant. But Fritz
must be making great deal of money
now. Why. he had gone up TO the
castle in the middle of the day To mend
broken part of the Swiss clock case.
When Fritz Hartmann reached the
notary's house he forgot that there was
any such thing as carving i'm the world.
unless ii be carving out Il fortune. Yet
there was some carving To be done. and
he might be rich. The old notary and
Hartmann walked i'm the garden by the
colored spires of hollyhock flowers.
They smoked and talked of the time of
Hartmann father, and how the old
notary knew him well. and how there
had been a quarrel
mo one in the village knows?"
asked the old lawyer kcenly.
No one-l am good gaolcr to keep
secrets fast"
but it is time" said the notary.
"Your case j. safe. The old Baron
was almost dead. was called i'm to-
make the will by the man Ia whom the
property WAS willcd. His defence
would not have leg To stand on"
II was u very strange thing thai
while those two men were talking by
the hollyhock>, considering the future
lawsuit which was 10 make Schwartz
berg Castle change owners. at the
castle itself the evil omen came again
In the old tapestricd drawing room
Young Schmidt WAS telling his tale
leaning over the back of his little
wife chair, after days shooting. On
the wall.oppoSitc Ia the windows there
was only the softly shaded tapestry:
but at one end of the room
there was the portrait of
Bertha. in white and pearls, a.
a bride: it had been hung there instead
of the broken mirror All ut once the
portrait dragged the long nails from
the wall and fell face downward on the
polished floor. Even Ludwig Schmidt.
man ~ he WAS. turned pale and stood
unable to stir i'm the de i silence after
the crash. Then. seeing his young
wife's head sink forward l. turned Ia
her in panic. Was she msca1ly dead.
No. it was only a fainpe. The faint
passed off and the servant" were gath
cred round her where she lay In the
cool air on the terrace. Her eyes
sought her husband : face. and the only
words she spoke Were: Il am Ia die"
Now. 10 dead certainty very
dead certainty indeed-Bertha would
die if she sank a. she WAS sinking dur
ing the month Oh. two that followed the
falling of the great picture. All the
neighbOrhood had the tale: the Golden
Dragon" had sent it round-the bride
at the castle WAS wasting away and
dying. The doctors found no disease,
but she was fading a. flower fades
whose life is done
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the papers of Geneva. Tw" brothers
had quarrcled long ago. aIrd ga. yum.@-
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anger and gou, aw"y an r,jlc from his
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